James Enterprise Mail Server

Emails at the heart of your business logic

About

James stands for Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server!
It has a modular architecture based on a rich set of modern and efficient components which provides at the end complete, stable, secure and extendable Mail Servers running on the JVM.

Create your own personal solution of emails treatment by assembling the components you need thanks to the Inversion of Control mail platform offered and go further customizing filtering and routing rules using James Mailet Container.

James is a living Open Source project (all developments and implementations are based on open technical standards), any function which is not already available from can be developed!

Get Started With James

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WHAT WILL YOU TRY:Here you will try James server v 3.0 thanks to an image.This James image has a default configuration
using JPA (hsqldb) and Lucene. It also includes a default domain named james.local and three default users:
user01, user02, user03, with their default password being 1234.Note: this James server will respond to IMAP port 143 and SMTP port 25.

→STEPS YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW:
Pull and run the James image with the following single command:

Community

Apache James Project is an Open Source all-volunteer project obtaining its strength from its Community made of developers and users. All are welcome to the Community!
That way, we recommend that Users, Developers, Curious and Fans join the James Community.

Mailing list:Subscribe to the appropriate Mailing Lists according to your interests and your profile.Mail guidelines explain you more precisely how it works.

Download Apache James releases:Our download page allows you to download artifacts and sources for the James Server and James libraries.

Professional support:Find a list of companies which can provide you some
support on James.

Contribute

James is a project that lives from the contributions of its community.Anyone can contribute! That's right, we always want to hear from people with contributions to the code, the documentation, the website, and bug reports.
We more than welcome non-coding contributions.
Here are different ways to contribute:

Join the community:We more than welcome articles and blog posts about James.
Contact us by email or
on Gitter to share your experiences.
Don't hesitate to promote the Apache James project on your preferred medias.

Report bugs:You can here enter bug encountered, share your point of view about a specific feature or anything else...
Each subproject has its own bug tracker.
Go to James Server project bugtracker.
For other projects click on the appropriate links mentioned in the concerned subproject. Finally, create your issue.

Documentation:
Documentation is an easy way to get on board!
Check out the ~documentation label on JIRA to get some ideas.
Report on JIRA the typo you spots, the information you miss, and any improvement you can think to.
The next step is to contribute the documentation changes via Git.

How to contribute code changes:Read our sources from the Apache Git.
You can also come and interact with us on GitHub and share your work by creating a pull request.
Alternatively, you can attach a patch to the JIRA issue.
After a review, and exchanges with you, an Apache James developer will integrate the changes once it matches our policies.

What contributions can you do:We reference some easy tasks to start with :
~newbie We have a collection of minor fixes awaiting contributions:
~easyfix Challenge yourself with some cool features we thought to:
~featureAdditional ideas are more than welcome. Don't hesitate to discuss that with us!

Reporting security vulnerabilities:Security: Vulnerabilities should be announced to the Apache Security team.
PMCs will be notified about them, and will work hard to propose fixes as fast as possible.

Additional information:
The contribute page contains more details about the various details exposed above.
To match the quality expectations of our community, we enforce coding standards.
We rely on checkstyle for style checking.